Question

I have the following XML document:

<parameters>
    <source value="mysource" />
    <name value="myname" />
    <id value="myid" />
</parameters>

I’m trying to parse this XML, using XDocument so that I would get a list (Dictionary) containing the node and it’s value:

source => mysource,
name => myname,
id => myid

Any ideas on how I can do this?

Answer 1

I tried this out in LINQPad and it provides what you are looking for:

string xml = @"<parameters>
  <source value=""mysource"" />
  <name value=""myname"" />
  <id value=""myid"" />
</parameters>";

var doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
IDictionary dict = doc.Element("parameters")
  .Elements()
  .ToDictionary(
    d => d.Name.LocalName, // avoids getting an IDictionary<XName,string>
    l => l.Attribute("value").Value);